WPI's fundraising.
Apr. 15th, 2010 04:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solipsistnationSo, I just got a call on my work phone from the WPI annual fund.
They were basically trying to update contact info (and eventually asking for donations, I'm sure, but we never got that far). The guy asked me if I was still at some address in Connecticut.
"Oh," I said, "You want the OTHER Josh Brandt who was at WPI."
Yeah, there was a guy at WPI when I was working there with the same name. He started in 2001, after I'd been working there for a couple of months, and I immediately started getting his email and the occasional phone call. It was pretty amusing and good for occasional embarrassing revelations about the guy. Eventually he graduated and I moved to California.
Turns out that somewhere in the Alumni giving computer system, somebody must have just kinda done a google search for my name, found my work number on the UCSC web site, and entered it as the work number in WPI's database. Awesome.
The guy who called was still kind of confused. "Well, is the other Josh Brandt available to come to the phone?" he asked.
"No," I said, "I've never met him."
Heh.
They were basically trying to update contact info (and eventually asking for donations, I'm sure, but we never got that far). The guy asked me if I was still at some address in Connecticut.
"Oh," I said, "You want the OTHER Josh Brandt who was at WPI."
Yeah, there was a guy at WPI when I was working there with the same name. He started in 2001, after I'd been working there for a couple of months, and I immediately started getting his email and the occasional phone call. It was pretty amusing and good for occasional embarrassing revelations about the guy. Eventually he graduated and I moved to California.
Turns out that somewhere in the Alumni giving computer system, somebody must have just kinda done a google search for my name, found my work number on the UCSC web site, and entered it as the work number in WPI's database. Awesome.
The guy who called was still kind of confused. "Well, is the other Josh Brandt available to come to the phone?" he asked.
"No," I said, "I've never met him."
Heh.